Chapter 7
"Good morning," I heard someone call. I rubbed my eyes, still half asleep, and sat up. My vision was foggy from sleep and they ached. I hoped my parents had taken the contacts out of my eyes some while before I started the game, or else I might have trouble fighting through this. I blinked, hoping to tell if they had been taken out. There was no definite way of telling if they were still there, but my vision returned to normal.
Okawa and his three men were stepping out of their room. "Ohayo," he repeated, this time in his native tongue. Japanese, I knew Annabelle would freak when she found out-
"OHAYO!" Annabell burst down the door to her room as soon as Okawa had uttered the word. She stepped up to him, eyes wide and sparkling in admiration. "I had no idea you were from Japan! I thought I recognized the accent!" Okawa blinked in surprise.
"Oh. Yeah. The anime thing." He looked to his right, as if he had this same incident happen to him before.
"Annabelle," I whispered. "Not the time." She looked back at me, puppy eyes begging for her to continue. I hated to do it, but I shot her down with a glare. Sticking out her lower lip with crossed arms, she walked to the side, where York was just emerging. He lowered his eyes at Okawa.
"Any reason we're up before the monsters burn?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes." Okawa and his men put their fists over their hearts in some sort of salute. "We'd like to form a guild with the five of you."
"Oh, no." Ruben, who had been leaning against the doorframe with narrowed eyes, stepped in. "We're not joining any guild with people who attempted to burn down our house."
"On the contrary," York put in. "Joining guilds with multiple people might be just what we need." He opened his menu. "I've been looking over some of the features of this game, and the guild system is interesting. Whenever a certain member defeats an enemy, they gain all the experience of the kill, but a second amount of the experience goes to the other team members, split up randomly. There is also a chance of items dropped, mined, or received from loot chests being duplicated and given to other players as well. Plus, the party system lets you know the health, hunger, and the location of other party members. You can also initiate trades with others, regardless of how far away they are."
"And the bad side of it?" Scarlet questioned.
"They have the ability to find us wherever we are, and keep track of our levels."
"I am level 18," one of the young boys beside Okawa stated. Something told me the kid was the second in command. He couldn't have been a day over ten years old. One of his baby teeth had yet to fall out. His shirt had the YouTuber Tobuscus on it, his pajama pants were decorated with tens of small smiling creepers, and he had a hat with the Johto Pokemon starters on it. Regardless of looking like he couldn't perform anything more complicated than second grade math, the boy had a set of diamond boots and an amethyst sword. His eye was covered by a poorly cut patch of leather, a scar peeking out from under it. His stare was not innocent. This boy had seen blood, and not the cute splatter of it like in Minecraft minigames, but blood that had been spilt by the buckets from friends, monsters, and strangers. "You can call me Spellend, a magic expert. My ability: fire."
"Fire, huh?" Scarlet smacked her jaw out of habit, she didn't have any gum on her in this game. She must've been thinking about how to take apart this kid if he ever found out anything about her novice ice magic. He looked at her and nodded.
The other two of Okawa's men, once silent, stepped forward. Without their armor, I could see the guarded looks on their faces. Both of them had fiery red hair and fierce hazel eyes. One had freckles on his right cheek, the other on his left. The two had a distinctive white streak in their hair, again, on opposite sides. Twins. Exact opposites.
"I'm Para, level 17, this is Perp, level 16." The one on the right gestured to his brother. "I can control the growth rate of plants and animals." He rolled his eyes. Yeah, he obviously thought it was a useless ability. Annabelle, who still had to force herself to keep her distance from Okawa, looked at him with her shimmering eyes like she had found a new lover.
"And I can control the speed at which others can move. Just speed," he added, "I can't slow any of you down. That's apparently some other ability." This twin had a significant feature about him that distinguished him from his brother. The tips of his hair had been dyed black. I made a mental note to ask how he managed to do that.
"And you, Okawa?" Ruben asked.
"Probability," he answered simply. "I can change the odds of nearly anything in this game to my favor. Monster drops, critical hits, and other things I haven't quite figured out yet." If what he was saying was true, then he was powerful. No wonder they were so far in the game already, he had basically hacked his way through it. Maybe that's why the Legion wanted him, he was a hack within a hack. Maybe he could've hacked the chances of defeating the Over Dragon to an extreme amount and they had to stop him.
"We agree to the guild." Ruben and Scarlet looked to me like I had punched an old lady. Annabelle squealed in delight. York nodded once. I wasn't sure where Ham was, probably sleeping. "We're still low levels, only one of us has found our powers so far, so don't expect much experience points coming from us."
"We don't care about the experience points, we care about finding others to join our cause."
"Defeating the Over Dragon," I clarified.
"Yes." Now my four members looked scared to death. They hadn't been there for yesterday's conversation, I remembered. Oh well, better late than never. "We expect you to prepare for battle with it eventually."
"Just the nine of us?"
"Other guilds will join, I am sure." He smiled faintly. "But I'd rather just have a guild with your team and mine, to keep it on the safe side." That smile, I couldn't read it. I couldn't figure out why he had to smile to say that. Was it dastardly? Plotful? Romantic? No, it just appeared… happy.
"What about the name?" Ham walked into the room at this point. He still hadn't figured out how to put clothes on his character so Okawa and the others were surprised to be greeted by a man in just underwear. "I say we give ourselves a name like 'The Hard Ass Mofos!'"
"No," everyone said at once.
"Something simple," Okawa said. "My username is Oblivion Scrolls, and yours is Marshmallow Unicorn. How about Oblivion Unicorns?"
"Pfft," York chuckled. "No one would take us seriously."
"Then let them think we're not." He held a hand out to me instead of bowing. Did that mean he was giving me a position higher than him? "The Oblivion Unicorns will be formed with you as our leader, if you accept." I took his hand. A notification popped open on my screen.
Congratulations!
Guild Oblivion Unicorns Has Been Formed!
Leader: Marshmallow Unicorn
Moderators: Yoshi Tamer, Oblivion Scrolls, Spellend
Members: Anime Eyes, Righteous God, Sacred Goddess, Hard Ass MoFo, Parallel, Perpendicular
Objective: Defeat Over Dragon
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